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They are small drafting errors, but they should not be getting to us. Do you plan to put in any extra checks? The big thing that Fiona Burnet talked about was us looking to have extra resource, because people are doing substantial amounts of work.
The SPCB says that essentially there will be extra costs for the commissioner. The financial memorandum states that the extra cost would be from zero upwards, depending on the number of cases, but it is probably worth putting on the record of that there was on our part a misunderstanding of what the commissioner mean...
As I understand it, experiments are going on in Glasgow and Edinburgh to ascertain whether, if the subscription is £5 per month instead of £25 per month, people will ultimately think, “That extra £20 is only a couple of rounds of drinks; it is worth paying.”
As a result, George Osborne felt forced to extend his austerity measures for an extra year, a decision which could have negative effects on the economy.
The letter makes it clear that, even if the Scottish Government was looking for the department to do something extra in the run-up to the referendum, the department has said no, so it cannot be under any extra pressure due to the referendum.
More specifically, will local government continue to work with the Scottish Government towards maintaining the extra 10,000 weeks of respite provision?